Best Online Platforms For Learning Animation

Animation is an important aspect of not only entertainment stories,
film and movie industry, but also in businesses. For many reasons, the
demand for visual animation experts (animators) is on the rise. DreamGrow opines that animated video is the best strategy for your social media because it is fun, universal, cheaper to produce, evokes more emotions, and catches users attention better.

So whether you want to pick animation as a leisure time hobby, or
only want to hone the little already-existing know-how you have about
the art, the platforms below are some of the best online platforms for learning animation.

Best Online Platforms for Learning Animation

1. Animation Mentor

Animation Mentor
is one the best animation school available online. The platform prides
itself as an “original online animation school taught by professional
animators to grow you in the art of character animation.” and it uses a
mentor approach to impact the art of animation to aspiring animation
professionals — newbies, students, and pretty much any interested
individual.
Animation Mentor was founded in 2005 by Pixar Studios and takes in
students to its animation workshops and full programs via application
processes only.

2. Bloop Animation

Are you totally new to the animation scene? Or you have little next
to no idea what the art entails, but would love to learn more? Then Bloop Animation
is a good place to start. Bloop Animation has a wide array of animation
courses for beginners (and even professionals) and takes a step-by-step
approach to teach animation to newbies till they become professionals.
Bloop understands that learning to animate isn’t exactly a smooth
road and that is why it takes a slow and skmple approach to properly
guide newbie, explain basic terms, required tools, recommend softwares,
hardware, books etc.

3. AnimSchool

Like Animation Mentor, AnimSchool
also adopts a mentor style of tutoring beginners and intermediates.
Students of AnimSchool will learn to animate from industry professionals
who already work for some of the biggest and best animation studios in
the world like Disney and DreamWorks.

4. AnimDoji

Of all the platforms on this list, AnimDoji is a personal favorite.
AnimDoji adopts a practical and fun approach to tutoring on animation:
regular mini-assignments, animation challenges, weekly interactive live
sessions, peer reviews, discussion forum, and critique of students works
by top industry professionals.
Signing up for Animation lessons on AnimDoji totally cost nothing
although there is paid membership (goes for about £15/month) which comes
with extra training materials and option to purchase more extra
features as perks.

5. School of Motion

School of Motion has a plethora of super interesting courses to help you kickstart your animation career but one of the best is the platform’s ‘Animation Bootcamp‘.
School of Motion has a tone of project files and assets that are
layered and supplied in digestible doses as you proceed deeper into
higher learning levels. You also get to network and interact with
students and professionals of like minds.
Some other perks to enjoy while learning Animation on School of
Motion include private class podcast covering tons of topics,
personalized critique on your works, in-depth design-learning PDFs,
private Facebook group for bootcamp student to Foster interaction and
learning.

6. Lynda

Lynda
(a.k.a. LinkedIn Learning) is an online learning platform owned by
LinkedIn, the world largest social media platform for professional.
The website (also mobile Apps for iOS and Android) offers a number of
Animation training and tutorials. Lynda costs $29.99 per month. This
gives you access to all the over 10,000 courses on the platform, not
just the Animation courses.

7. Udemy

Udemy
is a global online learning platform offering free and paid courses in
multiple fields. Animation courses are not left out with dozens of free
and paid courses available.
For some reason, most of the paid Animation courses on Udemy are prices at $11.99.
There goes our list of best online platforms for learning Animation.
You can use any of them to kick start your career in Animation. If you
have used any of these animation platforms, share your taught. Which one
is your favourite.